A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[OneMountainAcres]

Lol Memphis! They'll be happy to see you when you get home tomorrow. The sitter will be too it sounds like lol

 

[memphis]

Aurora...I miss my girls. I know they are bored. I'm outside all the time & they just hang out with me.

I'm so not used to this landscape.

 

[Finnie]

Oh, Memphis, they will be so happy to see you!

On culling and not medicating, I tend to be minimalist about treating the chickens (and my caged birds). I would prefer everything to be "survival of the fittest" and select for "easy keepers". However this week I find myself bending over backwards, losing sleep, and running to TSC for electrolytes and then Nutridrench, all for a batch of chicks I picked up from the post office Wesnesday that suffered excessive shipping stress.

Two looked bad on arrival and died that day. Then the rest all started to look bad, and I felt heartsick that I might lose them all. So I went the extra mile. (These were not cheap chicks.) I've been dipping their beaks in Nutridrench water every couple of hours. I lost a third one the first night. Two more went downhill, but are still hanging in there. The rest have all started perking up. (There were 12, now 9.)

This is a case where I feel that the chicks went through a stressful experience, and I should do everything I can to get them to survive. If they live, then whether they are breeding material down the road will have to be evaluated by how they mature.

But this scenario is not really the same as what to do with a sick bird.

 

[Hillaire]

no video needed, when I got home the poult was acting like the rest, couldn't even point out the poult so all good seems to have fixed itself lol

 

[casportpony]

no video needed, when I got home the poult was acting like the rest, couldn't even point out the poult so all good seems to have fixed itself lol

that's good news!

 

[casportpony]

Heads up everyone:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1172392/bycs-software-conversion-discussion-information

 

[Molpet]

Heads up everyone:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1172392/bycs-software-conversion-discussion-information

He is right I hate change almost as much as my chickens
But it has to be done and thank you for the heads up.

Now I need to figure out what my password is LOL

 

[Hillaire]

ugh... so I leave for work at 5am every day... I check on the chicks and ducklings and poults every morning before I head to work. Well this morning is Saturday so I think "well the SO is off from work so she will check when she wakes up" I get a text at about 7:30 this morning saying "the brooder light for the turkeys blew I don't know how long its been off do you have a spare" I tell her where the spare is she gets warmth on them... it dropped down to 60 in the brooder and one of them was dog piled so is pretty weak. I had her put it in a little box with shavings under the heat lamp and seems to be coming to... it's so weird it was a brand new light, I just changed it.

 

[rjohns39]

Babies as promised...

 

[JRNash]

ugh... so I leave for work at 5am every day... I check on the chicks and ducklings and poults every morning before I head to work.  Well this morning is Saturday so I think "well the SO is off from work so she will check when she wakes up"  I get a text at about 7:30 this morning saying "the brooder light for the turkeys blew I don't know how long its been off do you have a spare"  I tell her where the spare is she gets warmth on them... it dropped down to 60 in the brooder and one of them was dog piled so is pretty weak.  I had her put it in a little box with shavings under the heat lamp and seems to be coming to... it's so weird it was a brand new light, I just changed it.

The most well layed plans of mice and men oft come to nought...or something like that